Liberty is an inherently offensive lifestyle. Living in a free society guarantees that each one of us will see our most cherished principles and beliefs questioned and in some cases mocked. That psychic discomfort is the price we pay for basic civic peace. It's worth it. It's a pragmatic principle. Defend everyone else's rights, because if you don't there is no one to defend yours. -- MaxedOutMama

I don't just want gun rights... I want individual liberty, a culture of self-reliance....I want the whole bloody thing. -- Kim du Toit

The most glaring example of the cognitive dissonance on the left is the concept that human beings are inherently good, yet at the same time cannot be trusted with any kind of weapon, unless the magic fairy dust of government authority gets sprinkled upon them.-- Moshe Ben-David

The cult of the left believes that it is engaged in a great apocalyptic battle with corporations and industrialists for the ownership of the unthinking masses. Its acolytes see themselves as the individuals who have been "liberated" to think for themselves. They make choices. You however are just a member of the unthinking masses. You are not really a person, but only respond to the agendas of your corporate overlords. If you eat too much, it's because corporations make you eat. If you kill, it's because corporations encourage you to buy guns. You are not an individual. You are a social problem. -- Sultan Knish

All politics in this country now is just dress rehearsal for civil war. -- Billy Beck

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Quote of the Day

Quote of the Day
I'll recommend myself to you if you have a pretty strong stomach. (Answering a question about "new" military SF authors.)

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I'm not a Libertarian. And the reason I'm not is because there's three questions Libertarianism has never adequately answered for me:

How do we provide for the national defense?

How do we defend against domestic enemies, to include criminals?

And what about public health? By which I mean plague prevention, not socialized medicine.

I haven't heard a decent, credible, non-vomit-in-the-gutter answer from a Libertarian on any of those three.
Author Tom Kratman, from An Interview with Tom Kratman, Part 5 that can be found at Blackfive.net The whole interview series is quite interesting. Next up in the interview series is Michael Z. Williamson, but the audio on that is pretty screwed.

The only thing of his I've read is Watch on the Rhine, which I thought was actually pretty good. I understand that a lot of his other stuff might, in fact, require that strong stomach he warns about.

Anyway, his three questions are pretty good. I hadn't considered the public health one, but it does seem obvious in retrospect. Discussion on this would be interesting, I think.

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